New books by Mia Tsai, J.R. Dawson, Daniel Kraus and Seth Haddon explore how we recall the past when everything falls apart.

We all know the New Kingdom mummies from ancient Egypt were preserved with a certain sophistication and advanced skill that we are still mesmerized by to this day. But what none of us knew is that ...

Scindian rulers, who ruled Gwalior state, played an important role in Indo-Greek heritage preservation in India.

A traveling workshop of TAU's Orit Guardians program discovered two 15th-century Orit books—the oldest found to date in the ...

The depth of the writer’s commitment is tested when he meets with a Southern Californian tattooist proficient in ancient ...

Sam Kean has gone back in time, at least in practice, for his new book "Dinner with King Tut." He talks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about "experimental archeology" and learning about ancient cultures.

The Grolier Codex, the oldest known book created in the Americas, is a genuine record of astronomy and calendar-keeping in late Maya civilization.

In ancient Turkey, a large Neolithic settlement known as Çatalhöyük arose and became the prototype for successful urban living...for a short while; however, by the time the civilization fell ...

For 150 years, people have tried to decipher mysterious symbols written by an advanced civilization believed to rival ancient Egypt. Can a $1 million prize help crack the puzzle?

These are the best cruises for exploring ancient civilizations Tracing temple-studded coastlines and rivers that gave birth to epoch-shaping civilizations, these sailings reveal how the waves have ...

Documentaries about ancient civilizations are some of the most interesting, with several of them being engaging docuseries that keep viewers invested all the way through. Many documentaries like ...

No one would dispute the desirability of the possibility of an examination of the social thought of the ancient civilizations, especially after reading the very able book of Prof. Hertzler. It is ...